Equitable Student Access to Effective Teachers & Principals
High-Leverage Opportunity 3
Develop innovative strategies and knowledge sharing, along with offering a train-the-trainer process, to reduce inequitable access.
Research shows an inequitable distribution of lower-quality teachers across every indicator of student disadvantage (Goldhaber, et al. 2015). Low-performing schools often struggle with both teacher and principal hiring issues. The U.S. Department of Education (ED) frames these issues within High-Leverage Problem (HLPs) areas and HLP #3 is Equitable Student Access to Effective Teachers and Principals.
To build capacity within State Educational Agencies (SEAs) to tackle these problems, the Region 6 Comprehensive Center (RC6) is developing innovative strategies and knowledge sharing, along with offering a train-the-trainer process.
Key strategies to support this work:
Develop a customized annual plan of support for each SEA in its monitoring of Local Educational Agency (LEA) progress in addressing inequitable access.
Plan and facilitate regular meetings within and across states on LEA implementation and evaluation of innovative strategies.
A partner of the RC6 —Academic Development Institute (ADI) —will offer a train-the-trainer process for SEA/LEA leaderships teams to build capacity to train CSI/TSI schools in integrating an equity focus into school improvement processes.
The RC6 projects within its three-state coverage area will address one or more HLPs according to the work, and SEA and school district needs. Following is the RC6’s current work around HLP #3:
